Title :
Strategies for cooperative search in distributed databases
Author :
Chua, Joselíto J. ; Tischer, Peter E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
We consider the problem of searching a set of data repositories, each managed by an independent agent which is able to handle queries from users, as well as queries from peer agents. Given a query, an agent´s task is to find a closest match to the query over all the distributed databases. The agents search the distributed databases cooperatively by routing queries with each other. However, it is inefficient to route all queries to all agents. In this paper, we present strategies for routing queries efficiently between agents.
Keywords :
client-server systems; distributed databases; multi-agent systems; query processing; cooperative search; data repository; distributed databases; distributed query processing; independent agent; peer-to-peer searching; query routing; Australia; Computer science; Costs; Distributed databases; Engineering management; Information retrieval; Positron emission tomography; Query processing; Routing; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2003. IAT 2003. IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1931-8
DOI :
10.1109/IAT.2003.1241086
